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Robson Tramontina, Research Associate, Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry, University of Manchester

A biologist queries whether AI ‘borrowed’ his work to make major discovery – an expert explains the rules

AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.

The new group of enzymes were discovered in bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria. Anthropic named them array-associated reverse transcriptases (ARTs).

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